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Olinger Stories
Olinger Stories: A Selection is a collection of 11 works of short fiction by John Updike published by Vintage Books in 1964.
The short stories, set in the fictional town of Olinger, Pennsylvania are in large part autobiographical, about a boy growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, and his experiences as he reaches adolescence and manhood. As presented in Olinger Stories: A Selection the stories match the fictional chronology "which follow a single narrator through his adolescence, marriage, and divorce."
The volume includes stories previously collected in Updike's The Same Door (1959) and Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962).
All of the selections in this volume originally appeared in The New Yorker. Three of the works were previously collected in The Same Door (1959), and seven had been published in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962). "In Football Season" had not been previously collected.
"The point, to me, is plain, and is the point, more or less, of these Olinger Stories. We are rewarded unexpectedly. The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift."—John Updike in the Foreword to Olinger Stories (1964)
Literary critic Jane Barnes offers this appraisal of Updike's autobiographical works in the collection:
The best Olinger stories provide us with a model of what Updike's recent stories have returned to. In "Flight," "Pigeon Feathers," "A Sense of Shelter," there is more fancy writing than there is in To Far to Go: Maples Stories (1979) or Problems and Other Stories (1979), but in both groups of stories the writing all serves a purpose. In the long run, the unruly impulses in his style seem to have been brought under control by the same principle that liberates the narrator from the past.
Literary critic Arthur Mizener identifies Updike's literary romanticism as key to his Olinger stories:
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Olinger Stories
Olinger Stories: A Selection is a collection of 11 works of short fiction by John Updike published by Vintage Books in 1964.
The short stories, set in the fictional town of Olinger, Pennsylvania are in large part autobiographical, about a boy growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, and his experiences as he reaches adolescence and manhood. As presented in Olinger Stories: A Selection the stories match the fictional chronology "which follow a single narrator through his adolescence, marriage, and divorce."
The volume includes stories previously collected in Updike's The Same Door (1959) and Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962).
All of the selections in this volume originally appeared in The New Yorker. Three of the works were previously collected in The Same Door (1959), and seven had been published in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962). "In Football Season" had not been previously collected.
"The point, to me, is plain, and is the point, more or less, of these Olinger Stories. We are rewarded unexpectedly. The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift."—John Updike in the Foreword to Olinger Stories (1964)
Literary critic Jane Barnes offers this appraisal of Updike's autobiographical works in the collection:
The best Olinger stories provide us with a model of what Updike's recent stories have returned to. In "Flight," "Pigeon Feathers," "A Sense of Shelter," there is more fancy writing than there is in To Far to Go: Maples Stories (1979) or Problems and Other Stories (1979), but in both groups of stories the writing all serves a purpose. In the long run, the unruly impulses in his style seem to have been brought under control by the same principle that liberates the narrator from the past.
Literary critic Arthur Mizener identifies Updike's literary romanticism as key to his Olinger stories: